{"id":984,"date":"2006-04-05T10:59:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-05T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=984"},"modified":"2006-04-05T10:59:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-05T10:59:00","slug":"imperial-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=984","title":{"rendered":"Imperial Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look, it's a miniature Tokyo!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/jpn\/lens_baby_bridge.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Nikon D100, LensBaby<\/div>\n<p>No, that's just the view from the hotel room through the magical LensBaby.<\/p>\n<p>Off to the Imperial Gardens! A couple of quick subway rides gets us from our hotel to the Gardens. It's the beginning of cherry blossom season, and the place is busy. Maybe it's always busy, I dunno.<\/p>\n<p>Here's the entrance:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/jpn\/imperial_gardens_entrance.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Nikon D100, 28-80mm<\/div>\n<p>The little sign said this was a dolphin. I think it looks more like a carp (those little eyebrows are on all the carp in the ponds):<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/jpn\/dolphin.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Nikon D100, 18-35mm<\/div>\n<p>The Imperial Palace (which the gardens are part of) is right in the middle of the city, so it's tough to get pictures of this beautifully-done garden without getting little bits of the city at the same time:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/jpn\/imperial_gardens.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Nikon D100, 18-35mm<\/div>\n<p>and:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/jpn\/imperial_lawn.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Nikon D100, 18-35mm<\/div>\n<p>But, if you focus on little tiny bits:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/jpn\/bird.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Nikon D100, 75-240mm<\/div>\n<p>Or if you're willing to put a lof of sky in the shot:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/jpn\/imperial_cherry.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Nikon D100, 18-35mm<\/div>\n<p>You can do it.<\/p>\n<p>It's a very nice place. There are lots of cherry and plum trees; there are trees representing all of the prefectures; everything is sculpted right right, everything is manicured just right. The small pathways through the gardens are rubberized, so your footsteps are silent. The fish are happy. Very nice.<\/p>\n<p>More to come...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look, it's a miniature Tokyo! Nikon D100, LensBaby No, that's just the view from the hotel room through the magical LensBaby. Off to the Imperial Gardens! A couple of quick subway rides gets us from our hotel to the Gardens. It's the beginning of cherry blossom season, and the place is busy. Maybe it's always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-06"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}